Diggory and the Enchanted Orchard Adventure Part I
Diggory leaves home on a white horse with a red saddle to seek fortune. He feeds his hunger by apple stealing in an enchanted orchard guarded by a wicked magician who reveals the truth and offers escape through the Apple Door. Diggory uses wish apples to help the magician and to escape, gathering the orchard’s wonders and meeting kings, princesses, and villagers. The tale ends with Diggory returning via the Apple Door after a perilous night ride.
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Diggory
Shanks
Round Mound
Joyce
Invicta
When I’m a Man A child’s verse on grown up fantasies
A playful poem imagines future male independence as a grown man who skips grooming, wears tall elk hats with gold crowns, rejects neckties, roams the streets alone after dark, and hops aboard ice wagons without politeness or rules, insisting he won’t go to bed early.
Saved by Prayer from The Little Chronicle
Two children chased by a ferocious cow escape by prayer. The girl recalls telling her friend to say a breakfast prayer, leading to the line My papa says at breakfast. They crawl under a fence and are saved, illustrating faith and quick thinking.
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The
Little Chronicle
Mamma
Tommy
Papa
Why He Couldn't Go From Current Literature
A brief vignette begins with lAttie Mary asking her mother if she will go to heaven when she dies. The mother replies with hope, and the child anxiously notes that she will be lonely without her father. The punchline reveals the father cannot go because he cannot leave the store.
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lAttie Mary
Prize Winners in Rook Competition
The Tribune announces May Musgrave as first prize winner for a rook essay written in her own words. It also presents multiple readable pieces by Dorothy Clifford and Elizabeth Brengle on rooks, their nests, behavior, diet, and habitats across Europe, with notes on rooks as social, caged friendly birds aiding farmers by eating wireworms and pests.
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Tribune
May Musgrave
Rooks
May
Europe
England
Dorothy Clifford
G. Swift
Amenia Union
N. Y
France
Italy
Ireland
Wales
Mouser Hall Christmas Feast At Mouser Hall
A Christmas gathering unfolds at Mouser Hall with Papa Tom Mouser proposing a feast. Guests arrive by varied transport including Auntie Tab in Whiskers cab and Spot in a motor car that breaks down, followed by a coach and four.
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Mouser Hall
Papa
Mamma
Kittens
Auntie
Tab
BRAIN PUZZLERS RIDDLE SOLVED BY READER
The riddle clues spell a word describing the reader. Each line pairs letters found in one word but not another, forming a hidden answer that matches what you are doing now. The final word in the clue points to the solver.
Beheading Riddles From A Wordplay Page
Behead to stay yields bound. Behead to go back yields pleasure. Sease to limit yields what teachers should. Behead to abolish yields doorbell when posted. Behead to criticise yields view from Trinity steeple. Beat to compensate yields part of a hospital. Behead to slide back yields napies-like term.
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Trinity Steeple
Noted Elephant Joined Less A Nurse A Violent Attack
A fragmented clue set links a famous elephant to a nurse and a violent assault, with parallel puzzles referencing a snug home a Moslem title a perennial plant and terms for not closed a minute opening and long ago as snares.
RIDDLE ABOUT A CHOSEN OBJECT
A fifteen letter two word item once sold for 24 dollars. Its first three letters form an upright animal. Letters 4 to 6 describe headwear. Letters 7 to 9 relate to something it puts on its face. Letter 10 stands for a very important person. Letters 12 to 15 describe something most men want. Letters 11,2,3,15 refer to something found on the seashore.
Transpositions and Puzzles From a Wordplay Page
A compact puzzle item lists transpositions and an enumerated wordplay series. It includes rearrangements and anagrams for many terms such as Annie and antlers, with a simple anecdote about Annie animatedly anticipating antics. The page features a suffix puzzle guessing brigade parade lemonade cannon ate cockade and a crisscross of letterplay.
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P. S. Dare
Annie
Andrew
Blind Squirrels in Central Park Draw Public Wonder
A New York woman feeds Central Park squirrels and explains why a one eyed rodent eats with its blind side toward kindness. She notes many blind squirrels due to slingshot pranks by mischievous boys, while park policemen curb the misdeeds.
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Bunny
Central Park
Weill
West Drive
The Shiniest Dime
Jessie L. Britton tells of a girl with five dimes who saves one shiny coin for a special gift. She buys presents for family members on Christmas Day and returns home smiling, having spent the brightest dime to show love.
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Jessie L. Britton
Annette
Prize Puzzle Verse Animals Hinting at Names
A puzzle verse invites under twelve readers to name animals that rhyme with missing words in a tale of a chase. The scene features a slow eater, a brook crossing attempt, a Berkshire friend, a pursued creature, a cinnamon predator, sleek brown climbers, a Canada creature, a ferocious look, a climbing guy, a ill smelling beast, a water creature escaping claws, and a household predator, all ending with a safe, surprise ending.
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Tribune
New-York Triune
Canada
Boys Who Won Out in Life Despite Early Struggles
A collection of uplift anecdotes highlights how hardship at a young age forged success. Notables such as a prominent New York minister, Booker T. Washington, and a former New York governor rose from poverty, with humble beginnings—worn trousers, molasses meals, and early work—leading to influential careers and lifelong achievements.
Would you like to be president in the park tale
In The Chicago News a park scene shows a good old gentleman asking a boy if he wants to be president. The boy says no, he’d rather be the President’s little boy to have his name in print. A separate short item mentions a boy seeing a man in a window making faces for a couple of clocks, a brief punchline about time and faces.
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Chicago News
Aken
Chums
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Sy Louis Waln
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Switzerland
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